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NewsTrusts refusing royal wedding bonus 'mean'
A row over pay arrangements for staff who have to work on this year’s royal wedding is brewing after health workers across the country were told they will not receive any extra money.
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NewsSwine flu vaccine bill cost department £239m
The government spent £239m on the swine flu vaccine, official figures reveal.
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NewsScottish health boards allocated £11.4bn
Health boards in Scotland have been allocated their share of £11.4bn announced earlier as part of the Scottish budget.
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NewsLansley: Competition will protect commissioners from 'abusive relationships'
Andrew Lansley has defended the competition agenda set out in the Health Bill during the committee stage its passage through Parliament.
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HSJ Local
Deficit-stricken NHS Harrow cuts chlamydia screening funding as rates plummet
PERFORMANCE: The north west London primary care trust recorded a screening rate of 8.42 per cent in its most recent performance report.
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HSJ Local
Bedfordshire PCT approves new mental inpatient plans
STRUCTURE: Bedfordshire PCT has approved recommendations on how mental health inpatient services will be run by South Essex Partnership University FT (SEPT).
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NewsSick leave 'more likely' in junior staff
Lower paid NHS staff and junior workers are more likely to go off sick than senior colleagues, according to a new report.
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NewsCalls to review hospital death guidance
Medical directors in Scotland have been advised to review cases when elderly people die while waiting to be discharged from hospital.
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NewsRegional inequalities evident at early ages
Stark inequalities in children’s development and overall life expectancy between local authorities are revealed by new data published by the Marmot Review.
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NewsHealthcare assistants to ease budget pressures
Providers will need to see a big growth in the number of healthcare assistants over the next decade, the health skills advisory body has said.
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NewsDH figures showing private sector disadvantage 'almost certainly' wrong - Monitor
Department of Health figures showing NHS providers enjoy a significant advantage over the private sector are “incomplete” and may hide a net disadvantage to the NHS, Monitor has said.
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HSJ Local
Sunderland sees three consortia emerging
STRUCTURE: Sunderland Teaching PCT has identified three emerging commissioning consortia.
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HSJ Local
Two consortia emerging in South Tyneside
STRUCTURE: There are two emerging commissioning consortia in the South Tyneside PCT area.
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HSJ Local
Gateshead pathfinder to take on urgent care and prescribing
STRUCTURE: The pathfinder consortium covering all Gateshead practices is likely to be delegated urgent care and prescribing budgets from April.
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NewsFoundation Trust Network to split from Confed
The Foundation Trust Network has decided to split from the NHS Confederation.
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HSJ Local
SHA arbitrates after dispute between trust and NHS Greenwich PCT cluster
FINANCE: A primary care trust has seen the contract value of services with its local acute rise by £10m for the second half of the financial year after arbitration.
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HSJ Local
Trusts court GPs ahead of consortia engagement
WORKFORCE: Hospital trusts in London are investing in courting GPs ahead of policy changes which will see consortia take over commissioning NHS services.
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HSJ Local
Bed-blocking NHS Sefton patients will get 48 hours to vacate
PERFORMANCE: Bed blocking patients in Sefton who turn down transitional placements will be given 48 hours to make their own arrangements.
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HSJ Local
South west London cluster negotiates below-tariff prices for urgent admissions
FINANCE: Commissioners in London plan to shave millions off what they pay for urgent care with a package of measures including locally-negotiated below-tariff prices.
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HSJ Local
The Christie could face red rating due to 'flawed' cancer waiting times target
PERFORMANCE: Care services minister Paul Burstow has written to the foundation acknowledging that its difficulties meeting the 62 day cancer treatment waiting times target are due to problems in the Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cancer Network ‘as a whole’.